big businesses and landowners

• successes for big businesses and landowners (BBL) rearmament programme brought profits, value of German industry rose and 70% rise in wages for many managers
• successes for BBL landowners could get cheap land, lived comfortably
• failures of BBL: government controlled prices, wages and imports and decided what could be produced, large businesses had to invest into synthetic rubber and ersatz products
• failures of BBL: landowners suffered after 1945 when occupying lands took their land